The error you are getting implies your kernel is unable to access hard drive, possibly because it does not know how to deal with controller. While ahci should be the correct driver ... your lspci tells your controller is in IDE mode. Have you tried to change that?_________________Please learn how to denote units correctly!

Also, I should mention that during boot, the kernel hangs for like 2 minutes and stalls at
[code]Switching to clocksource tsc[/code]
I googled it and it seems like a problem with radeon...I'm not too sure.

Yeah, so I hit DEL when at boot and go to the Phoenix Award Bios CMOS Setup Utility, then I got to Advanced BIOS Features...then it's a dead end because nowhere does it say anything about switching IDE to AHCI. I have Win7 but it's on a seperate hard drive but i went to regedit and edited changed the value to 0 already but I doubt it's related since the hard drive I plan to use does not have Win7 on it.

See your motherboard manual. BIOS setups are different, we cannot tell you where it is, if you need help post your M/B brand and model as I requested before._________________Please learn how to denote units correctly!

I don't have it anymore. Basically, when I go to Standard CMOS Features -> then it says IDE Primary Master [Maxtor 2B020H1]. The description to the side says "While entering setup BIOS auto detects the presence of IDE debices. This displays the status of auto detection of IDE devices". So I select it. I get 3 choices:
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LBA/Large Mode [Auto]
DMA Mode [Auto]
Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T [Auto]
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Each of the settings can be either Auto or Disabled.
System Information is

That's good, I was about to download the manual. Yeah, there seems to be another problem.

I'm not sure what this means but I was saying before, Win7 is on a drive called "Hitachi...[whatever]" And that drive is true-crypted nad I think it might be trying to read the drive or it can at least detect the drive.

I have no experience with dual boot, haven't used Windows in my household since 2003. It may be sda is your Windows drive. Best setup for dual is probably to have Linux with bootloader on sda and Windows on sdb or whatever. Bootloader can be set up to swap BIOS drives for Windows so it believes it's on primary drive. Sorry, cannot help further._________________Please learn how to denote units correctly!

Um, you lost me now. In your initial post you said you have following error

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VFS: Cannot open root device "dev/sda3" or unknown-block(0,0)

Now you say Gentoo boots but you have RAID related issue? But you do not have any RAID set up in your box, do you?
I'd say if Gentoo boots then the next step is to get Windows booting from a secondary drive which is a matter of configuring the bootloader._________________Please learn how to denote units correctly!

Well, it does not boot all the way, sorry about the confusion. So it starts booting but does not finish booting. Also, I think the problem gets a bit deeper. I don't seem to have a make.conf in my /etc directory. I have a make.globals though. Everything else seems to be there.

PM-Maxtor 2B020H1 has an Integrated Interface ATA-5 and ATA-6 / Ultra ATA/100 and would be attached by an 80 conductor ribbon cable to the ide connector block on the motherboard. The driver for this motherboard adapter would be PATA_AMD selected by